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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the role of tradition in black culture according to Gilroy?
(a) It repairs the connection with Africa.
(b) It asserts the kinship of cultural forms.
(c) It forms the basis for pan-Africanism.
(d) It hides the differences between black experiences.

2. Who does Gilroy say DuBois was analyzing in The Souls of Black Folk?
(a) Post-slavery peoples.
(b) African blacks.
(c) The black Atlantic.
(d) American blacks.

3. What does Gilroy say Richard Wright was ambivalent to?
(a) Assimilation.
(b) Reconciliation with white culture.
(c) A closed racial community.
(d) Harmonious coexistence with dominant culture.

4. What does Gilroy say DuBois often reminded blacks?
(a) That slavery was worse than cultural collapse.
(b) That slavery was the worst thing people could suffer.
(c) That slavery was not the worst form of domination.
(d) That slavery was a finite stage in the development of the world consciousness.

5. What phrase did Richard Wright use for the Negro?
(a) America's metaphor.
(b) The race that dare not speak its name.
(c) The heart of modernity.
(d) The burden of guilt.

6. What feeling did DuBois see in the culture of diaspora blacks?
(a) Longing for the apocalypse.
(b) Resentment of progress.
(c) Ambivalence about modernity.
(d) Anger for being taken into exile.

7. What movement is Richard Wright associated with?
(a) Muslim militarism.
(b) Black power.
(c) Pan-Africanism.
(d) Black pacifism.

8. What does music allow black culture to do with this feeling?
(a) Repossess it.
(b) Commercialize it.
(c) Deny it.
(d) Escape it.

9. Where did Richard Wright develop his ideas about race?
(a) In the American south.
(b) In his world travels.
(c) London.
(d) Chicago.

10. What does Gilroy say is the result of racial identity?
(a) Transcendent consciousness.
(b) Limitation to historical self-awareness.
(c) Fragmentation of the global consciousness.
(d) Internalization of an oppressed mindset.

11. What do Jews and blacks fear from a discussion of the Holocaust and slavery?
(a) Confronting all the things that cannot be known.
(b) The lack of evidence from their familial histories.
(c) Remembering.
(d) Loss of uniqueness.

12. How does Gilroy characterize the third mode of double consciousness?
(a) International and collaborative with white culture.
(b) Pluralistic and diasporic.
(c) Indistinguishable from modernity.
(d) Essentialist and rooted.

13. What feeling does Gilroy say forms the foundation of the black Atlantic?
(a) Terror.
(b) Homelessness.
(c) Rebelliousness.
(d) Longing.

14. Where was W. E. B. DuBois born?
(a) The north.
(b) England.
(c) Africa.
(d) The south.

15. What does the Holocaust help us understood according to Gilroy?
(a) Tolerance of cultural differences.
(b) The black experience.
(c) Emotional indifference to suffering.
(d) Genocidal terror.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gilroy say gave Richard Wright his authenticity?

2. What are yearning and mourning associated with in black culture according to Gilroy?

3. What did Richard Wright say was the core of modernization?

4. What is the last period of black history, according to DuBois, in The Souls of Black Folk?

5. How does Gilroy turn away from Richard Wright at the end of The Black Atlantic?

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